Not everyone totally believed Mo Farah's trafficking story, but the documentary aired Wed night, what do you think now?

I didn't watch the documentary. Does anyone know if it addressed the issue that the Mo Doorbell account raised about how Mo's latest statements are that he finally started school at age 12 but that various people have previously referred to having been at a school for ages 7-10(?) with him?

I've often thought that the long history of violence, chaos, piracy, etc. in Somalia has much to do with how difficult the adjustment to Western societies has been for refugees. I live in a city with a large Somali immigrant population. Many have had a hard time adjusting to American expectations of honesty and fairness (at least in small matters). It's well known that you need to be very wary entering into business or even believing what they say.

In terms of timing, his daughters are now 9. For many people, once you have children and see them at the same age you were it brings home exactly how young you were when you experienced trauma and really triggers the past.m when you compare what you were living at your child’s age and think about what you would feel if they were going through it. This is very common for when people start experiencing the effects of what they repressed.

It’s also very possible he was paying people to stay silent and got tired of it, or someone threatened to out him so he got ahead of the story and did it on his own terms.

This is the second post saying Mo came to the UK illegally, and is made worse by stating that its a fact. It is not illegal to come to the UK (or any United Nations country) to claim asylum, and if entering via an unauthorised route is necessary, there is a legal right not to be penalised for doing so under the 1951 UN Convention.

It's also not factual to say Mo worked in the UK illegally, unless you are counting unpaid servitude as a child as 'work'. What other work has anyone alleged he has done prior to obtaining citizenship?

Clearly you don't live in America

They want to exorcise people born here due to their 'illegal alien parents"

These people supposedly not believing Mo’s story: what sinister plot do you think is going on? Are you saying he was actually a legal immigrant and is making all this up for public sympathy and money by selling his supposedly upcoming book? How likely is it for someone who’s already made a lot of money by 40 to risk his immigration status and his lifetime of goodwill for selling some more books?

This is a guy that sells cleaning products to make ends meet.

I'd say elements could be true but there are too many holes for there not to be some exaggeration and lies. He possibly got in illegally with the approval of his family but perhaps the servitude is exaggerated. I would assume that a police investigation would prove it either way. I don't know how Mo would think he could get away with it if were fabrication but maybe he was already in deep in the sense that someone was about to expose him and he wanted to get in first – ie, something like this was the least worst option.

The timing is what destroys the sympathy vote. The man was fading into the shadows. Holding back on this information until it was advantageous to him and his career belittles the struggles other children in similar situations have been through.

That's why there's Western Union. A total non-starter unless Farah was just taking the mick out of Geb and wasn't ever gonna settle that bill, no matter what.

Hussein Abdi Kahin, whose nationality as Mo Farah was ‘obtained by fraud or misrepresentations’ due to the illegal trafficking and his use of a false name, is a wrecked man. Marked for life.

Why so bitter?

Is this true? I'd be interested to see the piece. I didn't watch the Farah prog for the same reason I gave up watching Panorama decades ago. BBC has large vested interest in showing Farah in a positive light, even at this very late stage of his athletics career. I think it highly likely he'll become a BBC endurance pundit in some capacity - currently the role is shared by Cram, Radcliffe, England, Cotter, Yamauchi which on one fairly obvious front falls a little shy of the Beeb's diversity quota.

Lol, of course it didn't.

Seems there are a few people now on Twitter claiming to remember Mo from Oriel school, including former teachers.

My thinking too. Elements cud b true. Not sure if he himself knew 100% what was going on back then. I think His story is similair to Lopez Lomong (altho i think mo was orphaned). He then had the misfortune of being placed in a home where the housewife/foster-mother was very demanding n demanded him to do a lot of house chores. The timing of This story is a bit off since the world already have forgotten him (as a sportsman) and also, when he realized His name was not mo Farah, why didnt he change back? It wud seem like he is living another mans life. In all frankness, My impression of mo is that he wants People to feel bad for him. He likes to be a victim in public. Why are People here saying His wife spent all His money? Is she a Gold Digger 🤑?

Until doorbell mo comes clean about being a filthy doping cheater, don't believe a single word that comes out of his lying mouth.

He had the opportunity to come clean in 2016 when he instructed the press not to call him Mo any more. Of course, he still thought he was going to be a marathoner back then.